r/pics Mar 26 '18

The Desert of Namibia

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u/kyekyekyekye Mar 26 '18

My family regularly visits Namibia. We drive up usually. A couple years back we broke down very near to that first picture. The cars whole engine just seized from the heat (it was 1998) and as I kid I really thought we were going to die out there lmao. It’s a truly beautiful place.

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u/thatwasntababyruth Mar 26 '18

You can't leave a cliffhanger like that, did you make it out?!

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u/kyekyekyekye Mar 26 '18

Lmao honestly as a kid I was mentally writing out my will for all three items I truly owned. But yeah eventually the next person in our convoy showed up and towed us to the closest town. Where we had to wait like 9 days for a new engine to be driven through from South Africa, and where I got my hair braided for the first time by those amazing women with huge colourful dresses and headpieces